Force Recustomization through API?

[OwainNorth]

So, I'm creating a vApp from a template, like so:

Vapp Vm = NewerVApp.GetChildrenVms()[0];

Vm.Resource.name = Name;

_VCloudManager.WaitForTaskCompletion(Vm.UpdateVapp(Vm.Resource));

// Guest

GuestCustomizationSectionType Guest = Vm.GetGuestCustomizationSection();

Guest.ComputerName = Name;

Guest.ChangeSid = true;

Guest.ChangeSidSpecified = true;

Guest.AdminPassword = "Password1";

Guest.AdminPasswordAuto = false;

Guest.AdminPasswordEnabled = true;

Guest.Enabled = true;

_VCloudManager.WaitForTaskCompletion(Vm.UpdateSection(Guest));

// Deploy VM

_VCloudManager.WaitForTaskCompletion(Vm.Deploy(true, 0));

// Deploy vApp

_VCloudManager.WaitForTaskCompletion(NewVApp.Deploy(true, 0));

However once the machine boots up, it does not run Sysprep but instead I get a logon screen without the new settings.

If I comment out the lines to deploy the vApp and Vm it creates fine, as previously. However I can then choose "Power on and Force Recustomization" through the API, which forces Sysprep to run and changes settings as expected.

Is there no way of performing this forced reconfiguration on poweron through the API? I can find people referring to this limitation in v1.0, but surely this is a common thing for people to require?

Cheers

O.

[rkamal · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Deploying with force customization option is not available  in vCloud API 1.0.

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vcd_10_api_guide.pdf - Pg No 175.

Regards,

Rajesh Kamal.

[OwainNorth]

Excellent, something to be implemented soon enough I hope?

[Todor_Todorov]

Hi,

Yes, the 'forceCustomization' attribute was added to the <DeployVAppParams> object in version 1.5 of vCD which was released a couple of weeks ago

Regards,

Todor Todorov

[OwainNorth]

Ah, perhaps that's the issue I'm having - we currently have a v1.0 setup and someone's currently building me a v1.5 one.

I shall get on with that

[balajia]

After several retries and reading i managed to get this working through REST POST method...

string url = vm.Resource.href + @"/action/deploy";

string body = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><DeployVAppParams xmlns=\"http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5\" powerOn=" + "\"" + "true" + "\"" + " deploymentLeaseSeconds=" + "\"" + orgLeaseSettings.DeploymentLeaseSeconds.ToString() + "\"" + " forceCustomization=" + "\"" + ForceCustomization.ToString().ToLower() + "\"" + "/>";

string contentType = "application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.deployVAppParams+xml";

Response rp = com.vmware.vcloud.sdk.utility.RestUtil.Post(vCloudSession, url, body, contentType, "UTF-8");

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();

try

{

doc.LoadXml(rp.ResponseXml);

XmlNode task_node = null;

foreach (XmlNode temp in doc.ChildNodes)

{

if (temp.Name == "Task")

{

task_node = temp;

break;

}

}

if (task_node != null)

{

string task_id = task_node.Attributes["id"].Value;

Task t1 = Task.GetTaskById(vCloudSession, task_id);

t1.WaitForTask(timeout);

}

}

catch (Exception e1)

{

retval =

false;

failure_reason =

"RestUtil returned invalid POST response.";

return retval;

}